While developing for Wordpress you sometimes need to create a “non-widgetized” custom sidebar. You would also like to have a list of your most recent posts in that custom sidebar. Unfortunately, Wordpress doesn’t have a “recent posts” template tag.

Here is a simple, easy to implement PHP file you can use to generate a list of recent posts in your custom “non-widgetized” sidebar. Download this file: recent_posts.php. Now, upload it to the wp-content/themes/yourtheme directory, and insert the following code in your sidebar.php file where you want your recent posts list to appear:

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/recent_posts.php"); ?>

If you open up recent_posts.php in your favorite text editor you have the ability to change how many posts you want to display. You can also be more specific in what posts you want to display by passing different arguments to query_posts.

Jestro was featured in the Idaho Business Review today. The article does a great job of talking about our our new foray into table top advertising here in Boise. Here is a link to a re-print of the article:

• Idaho Business Review Article

After opening our doors only four short months ago we have re-designed our website here at Jestro to reflect all the exciting changes our business has gone through during that time.

This new website is more dynamic, we will keep it updated with our latest work, which you will always be able to find in the portfolio. We will also be posting regular entries here on this Wordpress powered blog. These entries will discuss a variety of topics including:

• The latest news here at Jestro.
• Marketing articles.
• Web design, graphic design, and Wordpress tutorials.
• Anything else we think might be helpful.

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